CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE WOMAN SENSED HIS presence.
He could tell.
Every few shuffling steps through the darkness she would stop and lift her head, as if trying to scent him. She would never find him, of course. How did you locate something that was all around you...in the air...in the dark caverns of your mind?
How did you grasp a nightmare? Clasp a foul breeze?
He moved around her, taunting her and laughing when she stilled...breathing shallowly in a futile effort to hear his footfalls, or capture his movement.
He played with her for hours...enjoying the way her heartbeat built steadily as she began to panic.
He could almost pinpoint that exact moment.
When her training as a cop gave way to the fragile woman inside.
That was when the fun really started to build.
That was when she st
